Scapeboard is a business manager for landscaping companies — estimates, invoices, client management, and AI plant identification in one app. It's Ceymer Studios' most commercially serious product, and the one with the wildest shipping story.
Whether solo or running a small crew, landscaping professionals juggle quotes, invoices, client histories, and job details — usually across texts, notebooks, and whatever's in the truck. Generic invoicing tools don't speak their language, and heavyweight field-service software is priced and designed for much bigger operations.
Scapeboard sits in the gap: estimates that convert to invoices, client records that keep history in one place, and tools that understand the actual work — including AI plant identification and landscape design previews powered by Google Gemini.
Build a quote on-site, send it, and convert it to an invoice when the job's done — with the setup friction deliberately stripped out of invoice creation, so the fastest path from "job finished" to "invoice sent" is a straight line.
Every client's jobs, invoices, and communication history in one record — the memory a growing business needs but a truck cab doesn't provide.
Photograph a plant on a job site and get an identification; sketch a design idea and get an AI preview. Both run through a secure server so no API keys ship in the app — and both sit behind a first-launch consent dialog that plainly explains what gets sent where.
Subscription billing through RevenueCat on mobile and Stripe on the web, backed by a Cloud Run server — one entitlement system across three platforms.
Scapeboard's users are outside, mid-job, often in bright sun with dirty hands. That pushed the design toward large targets, short flows, and aggressive removal of setup friction. The clearest example: invoice creation originally assumed a configured business profile. Real usage said otherwise — so the flow was rebuilt to let someone create their first invoice immediately, filling in business details only when they become necessary.
The same thinking is driving the current work: dual invoice modes — a Contractor mode for the businesses sending invoices, and a Client mode for the customers receiving them — so both sides of the transaction get a view designed for what they actually need to do.
Scapeboard's iOS port made ADIN's look gentle. The war log, in order of psychological damage:
The app built, launched — and showed nothing. Days of WebView and bridge debugging later,
the root cause was almost insulting: a missing Main.storyboard in the iOS project.
The wrapper had nothing to render into. One file, restored, fixed it.
A v7 native shell talking to v8 JavaScript produced a second black screen with a different cause — the native bridge and the web runtime silently disagreeing on protocol. Aligning the Capacitor major version across all three platforms ended it.
Google Sign-In that worked everywhere else failed inside iOS's WKWebView. The fix was
rebuilding the auth layer with initializeAuth and
browserLocalPersistence, plus native credential storage migrated to the iOS
Keychain via @capacitor/preferences.
Subscription metadata, EULA links, screenshot compliance, AI disclosure — each round fixed and resubmitted until approval. The lesson: Apple review is a checklist you learn by failing it, and the second app through the process goes far faster than the first.
Before pushing for growth: Firestore rules tightened, Cloud Run endpoints authenticated, CORS hardened, rate limiting added, and secrets moved to managed storage. Boring on purpose.
Scapeboard is the studio's commercial focus: the current work is customer acquisition and the dual-mode invoice experience — turning a technically complete product into a growing one.
Ceymer Studios